3D Printing Finish: Smoothing Beautifier

General information

Smoothing Beautifier

Among the chemical smoothing processes, Sculpteo has launched a brand new patented process called
Smoothing Beautifier that allows for a smoothed surface on
plastic parts. For now only offered on our white plastic material,
this unique process enables a chemical reaction that creates a fully
smoothed surface on your 3D printed polyamide parts.

To overcome many surface quality issues on 3D printed parts, the Smoothing Beautifier
process has been developed to narrow the quality gap between injected
molded surface quality and 3D printed part surface quality.
With our Smoothing Beautifier Process, 3D printed parts now look like
a finished product.

This physicochemical reaction uses an exclusive process to create surfaces that
look like they were injected.

After a long period of research, Sculpteo has developed a brand new patented process to smooth laser-sintered plastics. This unique process sets
new standards for the production of high-quality 3D printed parts.
This new offer is the best solution to get prototypes that look like
the finished product and small series that truly have a high quality
surface finish. This is the best quality you can get for your 3D printed
parts.

Technical specificities

This process is now qualified for our parts in PA12 (PA2200).

The maximum dimensions are 140x250x90 mm.

The minimum dimensions are 15x15x0.5 mm.

Hollowed objects can't have this finish applied due to the excess of powder inside the object that can't be removed correctly.

The
Smoothing Beautifier process adds three business days to the
turnaround time on your white plastic parts. This means:

Express Production: not available

Standard production: minimum 7 business days

Economy Production: not available

Due to the nature of this patented process, results may vary from one part
to another. The physicochemical reaction can indeed introduce transformations
to the parts such as minor geometrical changes or a loss of detail.
Designs that include very intricate geometries, hollowed parts or sharp
angles/edges can suffer appearance transformations. For more images,
we invite you to go on our blog post containing a portfolio of objects from satisfied customers.

Available colors

For now, the smoothing beautifier is only available for white polyamid,
and white polyamid dyed in black. We are working on releasing
it in black.

Now out of BETA

We offered the smoothing beautifier as a beta program for a while, we worked
on improving it, and have now made it available for the general public
as of January 2017. The newer version of this process is shinier and
more efficient.